PaulWarning

I've messed about with the action to try and get the clanky tone of JJ Burnel, never had much luck, I've still have a lowish action which rattles a bit when I hit the strings hard with my pick, but any clankyness gets totally lost in the band situation mix

like someone else I use prescription shades, that way I just look cool, or a pratt for wearing sunglasses indoors, take your pick, our singer went down the contact lense root when it got to the stage he couldn't read font size 28 set lists

[quote name='Protium' timestamp='1366577631' post='2054464'] For example? [/quote] as I said earlier, all Carlsboro amps seem to get slated but I used a bass beasty for a few years with no complaints

audacity, it's free

I wasn't getting any for months then changed my email address and started getting them

I Hate drum solo's

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1365841014' post='2045053'] Imagine... A bass with no controls! Paradise or heresy? We'd have nothing to fiddle with or worry about. Could make for some nice clean designs, though. [/quote] I never touch the controls on my bass, apart from to check they're full on

bypass the pots entirely, see if you can tell the difference, you could leave it like that and use your amp to alter the tone and volume then you know nothings being taken away from the signal, I believe Mike Dirnt does, or did this

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1365689096' post='2042959'] Hmmm not as easy as that! The player has to play their grooves/loops live and simultaneously hit the record, so it takes a deal of skill to be able to get it right (hit the start or stop a fraction late and your loop is out of time).. [/quote] yes there is an extra skill required but it's not the same as seeing a whole band perform, I don't like seeing a drum machine used it's seems like cheating to me, mind you I don't like my music to be overly complicated which is a trap that the loopers I've seen fall into

as far as I'm concerned loopers are no different from someone using pre recorded backing tapes, don't like them at all

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1365503686' post='2040345'] pre but I always put my Zoom 506II in the chain first which is set up so my amp is flat, so I suppose that counts as post, confusing eh, and if the PA guy is using a DI box you ain't got a lot of choice, they always seem to plug your bass straight into them, but again I always make sure my effects is in between my bass and the DI box [/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1365504690' post='2040357'] And of course the pre-/post- argument is essentially invalid if you have any active tone shaping circuitry in the signal chain before the DI insertion point. [/quote] Cheers BigRedX you said it in half the number of words I used

pre but I always put my Zoom 506II in the chain first which is set up so my amp is flat, so I suppose that counts as post, confusing eh, and if the PA guy is using a DI box you ain't got a lot of choice, they always seem to plug your bass straight into them, but again I always make sure my effects is in between my bass and the DI box

I thought 2008ish onwards were considered good, QC was improved

marshall mb 450, really? I've got a mb 4210 combo, same amp section, really like it, I've heard critisism of the build quality and reliability, but never the sound it puts out.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1364337429' post='2025223'] It's because of the hand that you lead with when doing a roll round the drums. Leading with the left hand on a right handed kit means that you can't follow onto the next drum. I know that 'cause my drummer told me, about the only intelligent thing he's ever said though. [/quote] I once had a go at playing drums, having gone through the trouble of getting left handed guitars and basses, I thought I learn the drums right handed, using the logic that from scratch it wouldn't make any difference, wrong, couldn't do the bass drum with my right foot with any sort of power of accuracy, I did learn to play the drums, sort of, but got bored and sold the kit. To the people who say anybody lefty can learn right handed from scratch because they know someone who has, I say to them how do we know if they would have been better players if they'd learnt there natural way? I doubt if Hendrix would have been as good if he'd learnt right handed, or Macca for that matter or how many cack handers have given up beacause they couldn't play the wrong way round

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1363618950' post='2014810'] Helluva gig. Even if the bass drum was over-mic'd to hell & back. [/quote] Same at Wolverhampton, why do they do it?

why do we gig? because most Humans crave being liked and what better way then have a room full of people having a good time because of something you're doing? As for payment, I don't do it for the money but it's a pleasant bonus, agree a fee first even if it's a low one then everybody is happy. Look what money Premiership Footballers on on, but if they weren't good enough they would play on the local park for nothing, it's the same with bands

[quote name='garry71' timestamp='1363544472' post='2013916'] My favourite Lancaster bassline is the one on Living On An Island. Dead simple and cliched, but it really works well. [/quote] Did he actually play on this, it's well known he couldn't stand the song, is this the one where he got substituted with a card board cut out on TOTPs? could have been Margarita time though. Both songs did a lot to turn me off Status Quo for a good many years

just changed my email and am now getting notifications

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1363089084' post='2008134'] Me lol - see the 'A Lefty Lament...' thread. [/quote] [quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1363093981' post='2008263'] Me. [/quote] Yes I thought there might be, but why? and if it's because naturally held it left handed, do you do other stuff left handed

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1363079387' post='2007879'] Funnily enough, I queried Joel over the recent absence of the 'Lefty Available?' line in some recent reviews. [/quote] part of the problem is that althought 13% of the population are lefty's I would say at least half of them learn right handed because right handed guitars are more readily available, a vicious circle I suppose I'm always a bit mystified as to why we play the way we do given that whatever handedness we are, in our case the left hand is the one with most dexterity, logic would dictate that would be the hand we use for the fingering of the fret board. Wonder if there's any right handed people that play left handed?

how come Fender make lefty MIM J's but not P's?

went to the Wolverhampton gig last night, great atmosphere in a relatively small venue, did a lot of less obvious stuff with Lancaster on vocals, no Caroline or Rocking All Over the World, no keyboards, thankfully, and a bit of Bob Young on harmonica, well worth going

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1362652967' post='2002695'] I`m the same, I`m not a mids fan at all, but I`ve come to accept defeat, and now have concluded that if I have a scratchy/middy sound on-stage, out front they hear what I want to hear. But, if I have the sound on-stage I want hear, the audience just get a load of "wumph" out front. [/quote] just as a matter of interest when the term boost your mids is used what frequency is being talked about, mids is a pretty wide frequency range, I boost mine at about 400 Hz, how about everybody else?

If you want a phater sound maybe you should consider using a P. On stage sound doesn't matter as long as you can hear what you're playing, as somebody else said get a long lead, or go wireless and go FOH during the sound check, even if you're just using the back line with nothing going through the PA it can sound totally different when you get 30 feet or so away from your rig